Combination-tool.



No. 897,293. PATENTED SEPT. l, 1908.

J. 0'. KORPI. COMBINATION TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11,1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOIIN OSCAR KORPI, OF SOUDAN, MINNESOTA.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

Application filed May 11, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN OSCAR KoRPI, a citizen of the United States, residingat Soudan, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Combination-Tool, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in combination tools, and the object is to provide a cheap, durable and handy device of the kind mentioned having in combination a stove-lid lifter and a tack puller and being adapted for several other purposes.

In the drawing; Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved device shown inserted in a stove lid in the usual manner. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of Fig. 1 with the stove lid omitted. Fig. 3 is a side elevation with the handle omitted and showing the device in use as a tack puller.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 1 is the handle which is hollow and tapering toward the curved lower front por tion 2, which terminates in the usual lidengaging tongue 3, having the side lugs 4 that hold the lid 5 steady when it is to be lifted.

In Fig. 1 the device is shown inserted in a stove lid 5 (shown in section) with the tongue 3 engaging under the lips 6 projecting in over the cavity 7 in the cover, and the lugs 4 engaging the surface of the lid for the purpose above mentioned. Behind the lidengagingv portion and underneath the curved portion 2 I provide a downwardly and backwardly extending hook-shaped tack puller or claw 89, cast or made in one piece with the lid lifter.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Serial No. 432,197.

In Fig. 3 the device is shown in use as a tack puller, with a tack 10 partly extracted from the floor 11.

In the use of the device as a tack or nail puller the claw 9 is forced into engagement with the under side of the head of the tack or nail and as the handle is forced upward the tongue 3 forms a fulcrum on the floor, whereby the tack or nail is extracted in a substantially straight condition, so that it may be used again. The use of the device as a stove lid lifter needs no further explanation but it will be further understood that the hook-shaped projection 8-9 may also be used to engage hot bails of kettles and ash pans, the handles of hot roasting pans and bread pans in ovens, and for moving and turning burning sticks in a wood fire etc.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

The device described comprising a handle with a stove lid lifting tongue at its front end, and back of said tongue a rearwardly curved hook-shaped projection for the purposes set forth, said projection terminating in a claw for pulling tacks and nails, said tongue serving in the latter case as a fulcrum or supporting point on the floor or other lumber from which a nail or tack is to be extracted.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN OSCAR KORPI.

Witnesses:

RO ERT JoHNsoN, OHARLEs RORKAINEN. 

